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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Surprise! London's tax on polluting vehicles made everyone much healthier

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Surprise! London's tax on polluting vehicles made everyone much healthier

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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Expansion of London's Ultra-Low Emissions Zone led to a drastic decrease in pollution, and increased air quality in every part of the city.
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    This is important because prior to the report’s period, some 4,000 people died in London each year due to toxic air pollution.

    Holy shit

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      I’ve always wondered how they come up with these stats. Because generally speaking, nobody died from acute polution poisoning or whatever. It must include things like a percentage of asthma related deaths and what not.

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        Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s death:

        An inquest had found air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death… Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate, following the inquest ruling …

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      Can confirm: the air in London is pretty terrible.

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